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Decades ago STL city became its own county. Now St. Louis County should become a city.

Use the legislature to change STL County to a city-county, West St. Louis. West St. Louis would instantly become the largest city in MO. All of the current "cities" in STL County would become townships. Unincorporated areas would become separate townships, with the right to organize or not depending on what the residents wanted. Townships would have 2 years, 3 years, or 5 years, depending on size, to dismantle their police departments and municipal courts.
Give St. Louis city the opportunity to join as another township. Based on their size they would have 5 years to join the West St. Louis police department and courts.